Globe reporter Nathan VanderKlippe said authorities held him for three hours, seized his computer

A Canadian journalist says Chinese authorities detained him and seized his computer in Xinjiang, China’s western province and home to its Uighur minority.

In a series of tweets Wednesday afternoon, the Globe and Mail’s Beijing correspondent Nathan VanderKlippe said he had been detained by authorities in Xinjiang for more than three hours. He also said that authorities seized his computer and that it is now in the custody of the Chinese Ministry of State Security, China’s intelligence agency.

The Uighur ethnic minority is an topic of particular sensitivity for Beijing, which has pointed the finger at Islamist terrorists to justify